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The power of Financial Reports in TINA 3

  • Are there any differences between your estimated profit and the real one?
  • What's your services sales evolution?
  • Which are your top performing services?
  • Who are your top bad debt customers?

Do you have the answer to these questions? How often do you think you should check this information in order to have the necessary visibility and to know what to plan for the future of your travel agency?

Topics: TINA Financial Reporting

Product Updates - August 2017

TINA mid back office system updates

Remarks 'bulk' modification

In the latest version of TINA mid back office, we have developed the possibility to modify the remarks in bulk. In the reporting process, it is very important (especially for TMCs) to have remarks defined for each travel service. But the process of defining them for every single service is time consuming and prone to errors. The new development is meant to simplify and reduce agents' workload - now, once a remark is defined and saved, it is automatically spread to all the services within an Order.

As a consequence, the number of corrections necessary for reporting is diminished, you'll get an increased degree of accuracy for Quality Control and thus, the number of services returned from invoicing is considerably reduced or even eliminated.

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Product Updates - July 2017

TINA mid back office system updates

New financial reports widgets are now available in Dashboard section and displayed by multiple charts

In the latest version of TINA mid back office, we have added new financial reports widgets, that are available in the Dashboard section and displayed by various charts:

  • Monthly Acquisitions Comparison
  • Monthly Sales Comparison
  • Monthly Services Sales Comparison
  • Service Type Comparison
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Collection challenges in the travel industry

So, let's explore together why we raised the issue of Collection in travel.

Let's consider the following figures:

Flight service:

  • Ticket cost: 560 EUR
  • Agency mark-up: 25 EUR
  • Cost of sales for the ticket: ~ 15 EUR
  • Profit before taxes: 10 EUR
  • If the customer needs to be credited for 2 months with an average interest rate of 2% it means an additional cost of sale of : 11.2 EUR

    This translates into the following calculation:

  • Ticket cost: 560 EUR
  • Agency mark-up: 25 EUR
  • Cost of sales for tickets: ~ 15 EUR
  • Additional cost of sales for crediting: ~11.2 EUR
  • Profit before taxes: -1.2 EUR (actually a loss)

*Note: This example is a simple theoretical one, just to exemplify the previous statement. Reality is more complex than that and it depends on multiple factors: economy, interest rate, sales channel, conversion rate, technology used etc.

Topics: TINA collection collection challenges

Product Updates - June 2017

TINA mid back office system updates

 

Statement of accounts

In the last version of TINA mid-back office, we have developed the possibility to generate statements of the accounts payable or the accounts receivable, with a certain partner, in a certain period.

This option can be very useful for the Financial department, to generate, analyze and send to partners, the balance for the accounts payable (all the confirmed supplier invoices and the associated payment documents) or accounts receivable (all the issued client invoices and the associated cashing documents).

The Statement of account section can be found in the Financial Module and before generation, users should select:

  • the period
  • the entity: corporate or supplier
  • the document type: detailed, outstanding or both, as per the following image:

 

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